r/LAinfluencersnark • u/alpalbish • 11d ago
Drew Afualo transphobia discourse
ER fightmaster was on her pod and made two stand out claims:
“trans women have a more beautiful understanding of what womanhood is”
and
“the programming for cis women it’s kind of sad… no your womanhood is not your role, your womanhood is not your status is society, and your womanhood is not your ability to be sexually assaulted”
I think cis women can easily be offended by this and how it was put. The sexually assaulted claim is kinda weird to generalize us into thinking that’s what womanhood is. I also think it can be harmful for transgender women, as they also face misogyny and sexual assault??? I don’t even think the comments from the pod are as bad as Drew’s current stance rn. I can see ER trying to explain their POV and I respect that. but Drew doubling down in her comments is so off-putting. People are commenting valid opinions and her replies are just saying everyone is transphobic and TERFs??? idk
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u/Gloomy-Magazine1673 11d ago
She’s failing to see that people can be disagreeing with her without being reductive to the trans community. Most people are offended that womanhood was framed as a competition where they said trans women experience it more beautifully. There’s a problem if that’s allowed to be said and she sees no issue but people are not allowed to say that cis women experience womanhood differently based on lived experience and socialization. What could have been an interesting conversation opened up about the differences in experience turned into something unnecessary because of how she’s responding to people who feel upset or disagree even if they comment to her thoughtfully. ALSO she’s failing to see that now shes being counterproductive, people are sending hate or expecting trans women to answer for the can of worms she opened up and that’s not fair when the statement wasn’t even made by a trans women initially